[Lumina_97_09]

Alright, had the idea for a while, just never gave it any thought.

I want to disable my daytime running lights so they go back to being controlled by the light switch. It bugs me that my lights are on whenever my car or just my battery is on. This might one of the problems with my battery dieing with my lights being on while just my battery is running, not to mention my stereo system too.

I even want to get a nice set of fog lights too and rig them up to a switch.

So here my question, how would I go about doing this? The foglight rigging I could do myself. Disabling the daytime running lights is beyond me.

Thanks.

PS: I heard it was illegal to disable you daytime running lights. I read that as of May 2008, there are no federal laws in the US that mandate DRLs on passenger vehicles. To me it's retarded. Why have a lights switch in your car to switch on you parking or driving lights if they will be on whenver to turn on your car?

This post has been edited by Lumina_97_09: 09 May 2009 - 01:42 PM

[mrclean]

pull the DRL fuse on in the passanger side fuse box.

[madbrad]

Lumina_97_09, on May 9 2009, 02:41 PM, said:

PS: I heard it was illegal to disable you daytime running lights. I read that as of May 2008, there are no federal laws in the US that mandate DRLs on passenger vehicles. To me it's retarded. Why have a lights switch in your car to switch on you parking or driving lights if they will be on whenver to turn on your car?

I'm in a good mood so I'll hold off on the gif.
In Ontario, and I would have to guess most other provinces and states, the provincial or state motoring lawbook(in Ontario it's the Highway Traffic Act) doesn't prohibit disabling the DRLs. It's a federal law that makes the manufacturers put them in, then it ends there. There's no way to get a ticket for it. The only consequence of disabling them is the possible denial of an insurance claim.
Let me clarify what DRLs really are, since you're asking why there's a switch if they're on all the time. The DRLs in our cars use the high beam and they power them with half voltage. There ain't no switch in the car that does that. The high beam is preferred because they aim straight ahead and not downward, adding to the visibility. Since that's against the motoring laws, they dimmed it by reducing the voltage. On some other cars the DRLs are the low beam(especially trucks because the fixtures are so high up) or fog ights or turn signal bulb. Canada has had them since 1990. Scandanavian lands have had it in some form since the 70s. Motorcycles in NA have had them since before the Brady Bunch went on the air. Not to lecture, but they really do prevent accidents. Statistics from Sweden convinced the people over here of that at least. I have been turning my headlights on 24/7 since 1983 after studying the Swedish data, way before they had DRLs here, so I actually never use my DRLS lol.
Oh yeah, about how to disable them, I never had to do it but I guess the preceding post is your answer, it's discussed here sometimes.

This post has been edited by madbrad: 09 May 2009 - 10:38 PM

[Lumina_97_09]

Got it, pulled the fuse, thx guys.

Now to get some nice fog lights.

This post has been edited by Lumina_97_09: 10 May 2009 - 11:55 AM